hun

See also Hun, and Appendix:Variations of "hun"

English

Noun

hun (uncountable)

1. (slang) Affectionate abbreviation of honey.
2. A grey partridge.

Anagrams

• nuh

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Breton

Noun

hun

1. sleep

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Danish

Noun

hun c (singular definite hunnen, plural indefinite hunner)

1. female, she
2. hen (female bird)

Inflection

    Inflection of hun

common gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative, dative and accusative	hun	hunnen	hunner	hunnerne
genitive	huns	hunnens	hunners	hunnernes

Pronoun

hun (objective case hende, possesive hendes)

1. (personal) she

See also

Danish personal pronouns

Number	Person	Inflection	Nominative	Accusative	Possessive	Reflexive	Reflexive possessive
Singular	First	common	jeg	mig	min
		neuter			mit
		plural			mine
	Second	common	du	dig	din
		neuter			dit
		plural			dine
		formal	De	Dem	Deres
	Third	masculine	han	ham	hans	sig	sin
		feminine	hun	hende	hendes
		common	den	den	dens
		neuter	det	det	dets		sit
		plural					sine
Plural	First	—	vi	os	vores
		common			vor
		neuter			vort
		plural			vore
	Second	–	I	jer	jeres
		formal	De	Dem	Deres
	Third	–	de	dem	deres	sig

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Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ɦʏn/

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Pronoun

hun (personal)

1. The dative case of the third-person plural personal pronoun: them, to them.
2. (proscribed) The accusative case of the third-person plural personal pronoun: them.
3. (proscribed, dialectical) The nominative case of the third-person plural personal pronoun: they.

hun (dependent possessive) (independent possessive hunne)

1. The third-person plural possessive pronoun: their.

Usage notes

The artificially created distinction between hen (for the accusative) and hun was invented by the seventeenth century scholar Christiaen van Heule, to make Dutch look more like Latin. In practice, many speakers have trouble remembering when to use the one or the other, since this distinction is not made in any other person. Thus it is common to hear sentences like:

• Hij heeft hun verraden. (“He has betrayed them.”)
• Ze zijn met hun uitgegaan. (“They have gone out with them.”)

The inverse is also common:

• Ik heb het hen gegeven. (“I have given it to them.”)

In an attempt to circumvent this problem, the nominative case can be used for both:

• Hij heeft ze verraden.
• Ze zijn met ze uitgegaan.
• Ik heb het ze gegeven.

The use of hun for the nominative case, however, is more locally restrained and still widely considered incorrect, mainly in written Dutch.

For more information, see the article in the Dutch Wikipedia.

Declension

Dutch personal pronouns

	subject		object		possessive			reflexive
singular	full	unstr.	full	unstr.	full	unstr.	pred.
1st person	ik	'k1	mij	me	mijn	m'n1	mijne	me
2nd person	jij	je	jou	je	jouw	je	jouwe	je
2nd person dialectal	gij	ge	u	–	uw	–	uwe	u
2nd person formal	u	–	u	–	uw	–	uwe	zich
3rd person masculine	hij	ie1	hem	'm1	zijn	z'n1	zijne	zich
3rd person feminine	zij	ze	haar	'r1, d'r1	haar	'r1, d'r1	hare	zich
3rd person neuter	het	't1	het	't1	zijn	z'n1	zijne	zich
plural
1st person	wij	we	ons	–	ons, onze2	–	onze	ons
2nd person	jullie	je	jullie	je	jullie	je	–	je
2nd person dialectal	gij	ge	u	–	uw	–	uwe	u
2nd person formal	u	–	u	–	uw	–	uwe	zich
3rd person	zij	ze	hen3, hun4	ze	hun	–	hunne	zich
1) Not as common in written language. 2) Inflected as an adjective.				3) In prescriptivist use, used only as direct object (accusative). 4) In prescriptivist use, used only as indirect object (dative).

Related terms

• zij, ze
• hen

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Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈhun/

Adjective

hun (not comparable)

1. of or pertaining to Huns

Conjunction

hun

1. (regional) where (regional variant of hol)

Noun

hun (plural hunok)

1. Hun

Declension

declension of hun singular plural nominative hun hunok accusative hunt hunokat dative hunnak hunoknak instrumental hunnal hunokkal causal-final hunért hunokért translative hunná hunokká terminative hunig hunokig essive-formal hunként hunokként essive-modal - - inessive hunban hunokban superessive hunon hunokon adessive hunnál hunoknál illative hunba hunokba sublative hunra hunokra allative hunhoz hunokhoz elative hunból hunokból delative hunról hunokról ablative huntól hunoktól

possessives of hun possessor singular possession plural possession 1st person sing. hunom hunjaim 2nd person sing. hunod hunjaid 3rd person sing. hunja hunjai 1st person plural hununk hunjaink 2nd person plural hunotok hunjaitok 3rd person plural hunjuk hunjaik

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Malay

Noun

hun

1. A unit of weight equal to one hundredth of a tahil.

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Mandarin

Romanization

hun

1. Nonstandard spelling of hūn.
2. Nonstandard spelling of hún.
3. Nonstandard spelling of hǔn.
4. Nonstandard spelling of hùn.

Usage notes

English transcriptions of Chinese speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Chinese language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse hon.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /hʉn/, X-SAMPA: /h}n/
• Homophones: hund, hunn
• Rhymes: -ʉn

Pronoun

hun (accusative henne, genitive hennes)

1. she

References

• “hun” in The Bokmål Dictionary – Dokumentasjonsprosjektet.

See also

    Personal pronouns in Bokmål

	Nominative	Objective case	Genitive/Possessive pronoun
Singular
First person	jeg	meg	min m
Second person	du	deg	din m
Third person m	han	han/ham	hans
Third person f	hun	henne	hennes
Third person n	det	det	dets
Third person, nonhuman m/f	den	den	dens
Plural
First person	vi	oss	vår m
Second person	dere	dere	deres
Third person	de	dem	deres

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Tetum

Noun

hun

1. bottom, base
2. beginning
3. origin